and so dr. ratner is the delta variance more contagious among kids. i think there's pretty good evidence that the delta variant is, can more contagious among all of us adults and children. and that's part of the reason that we're seeing such high case numbers. now the increasing cases in kids isn't because the delta variant is necessarily more very lent for children. but it's just that there's so much coven circulating in the community that we're seeing more cases in kids. and also that many of the adults, especially the older adults, are vaccinated. now, even in states where the vaccination levels are relatively low compared to other states, many of the folks over 65 or 70 have been vaccinated already. and so this, as many people have said, is, is a pandemic, a b unvaccinated now, and the and vaccinated are large, part of that is children. and i want to put a question and i'm coming to you doctorate, brought an but i want to put a question to dr. amman that we just got on youtube. specifically the question from effort data. hope i'm saying that right

joining us treasury official and "morning joe" economic analyst steve ratner.iday's strong jobs report, how does this all come together? >> the jobs report was strong by any measure. it was a good report. and i think has given a fair amount of impetus to the economy. but let's look first at the two kind of key jobs factors. one is the unemployment rate, which you see the red line at the top, you see how it spiked up early in the pandemic and it's been coming down, fairly slowly in recent months, but this month from 5.9% to 5.4%, that's the little black line on the right and that's good news. the second thing that's important to look at is what percentage of americans are looking for a job or in the labor force and actively looking for a job. that's the bottom blue line, you can see that also has dropped. it was up a little last month, which is good news. we're looking for the two lines to meet the middle black line which is where we were in february 2020. so we have a ways to go obviously. let's turn to the point you were making and related points about the sta

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and we also, as steve ratner tells us all the time we have more job openings in the united states of history of this country, so i'm wondering if it's not time to go ahead and do what congress is and the president is doing and let the moratorium run out. >> well, i think the question is whether you just sort of pull the rug out or you find some sort of glide path for people, for both tenants and landlords after -- you know, to a more gradual or easier way of ending this moratorium. it is true that there are jobs out there that for a lot of people life has not quite -- if not gotten back to normal, at least improved to the point where they can go to work again, they can earn income, they can pay rent. and they should. that's not the case for everybody, though. and there's a lot of uncertainty out there right now. so my question is whether or not there's some sort of glide path we could do to ease the blow, which will be a blow for some people. i mean, for some people it simply -- some people will be out of their homes. and then, we'll have that problem that we'll have to address. seem

. >> with us now let's bring in former treasury official and "morning joe" economic analyst steve ratnerd the eviction moratorium when we're at record highs for job vacancies, more open jobs available today than any other time in u.s. history. there's a lot of debate over exactly why there are so many job openings. you have the answers. what are they? >> joe you're flattering me this morning. i can't say i have all the answers it's a complicated question and the answers aren't always that clear. let me show you a few charts to help illuminate the situation. we can look at how many people we expect to go to work under these circumstances and the bottom axis going from left to right, jobs opening, is the point you were making if you look to the right and see the big black arrow in the upper right corner, the bottom of that is pointing to the percent of job openings you can see the other dots or periods in the past you can see that job openings are, as you said, at a record. what you expect with job openings at a record would be one out of every three unemployed people taking a job each mon

and joe manchin, look, joe manchin gets this as do larry summers and steve ratner, economists under obamaney we printed, the money that's out there and the government spending that they're authorizing, unlike the bottlenecks that powell and secretary of the treasury yellen keep talking about, those will go away, but this money and spending will not go away, and that's bad news for american workers. will: andy puzder, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you the, will. will: rachel, take it away. rachel: you better hurry up and get out here because we're already eating. as americans are facing rising prices at the grocery store, how can you cut back on spending without cutting back on the flavor? lawrence: stu leonard has some tips. stu, take it away. >> well, we're trying to get some weight on you. [laughter] you've been eating all this stuff, and you don't even -- lawrence: you gave me some healthy options too, turkey sausage. rachel: this is a ribeye, which is my favorite, and you say this is a pretty good alternative. this is what in. >> chuck steak. now, this is up in the teens a